Wesley J. Smith

It is still less than a year since the first human IPSCs were derived. One of its supposed downsides as a technique was the need to use retro viruses to effectuate the change from differentiated cell (e.g., skin, or other type of body cell) into pluritpotent stem cell. The fear was this could lead . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to kill rather than ease suffering. A new study, however, belies this notion. Having . . . . Continue Reading »

The Swiss have overtaken the Dutch as the prime harbingers of things to come in the Culture of Death. As it grants individual intrinsic dignity to plants, its Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to assisted suicide for the mentally ill. Now, a debate is opening, the end point of which is . . . . Continue Reading »

I am restarting the poll I posted earlier because commenters complained, and properly, that I had not done a good enough job creating choices. So, I have added two excellent suggestions. One more time! What is the most important purpose of society? ( . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot respond to every blog entry or story about assisted suicide that is filled with deplorable sentiments or outright lies, not to mention anti-religious bigotry. They are just too ubiquitous!But this one requires comment because it applies the “V-word” like a bludgeon in the title . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights radicals who engage in ALF and SHAC terrorism presume to put on the mantle Martin Luther King and Gandhi, claiming that their threats, bombings, vandalism, identity theft, harassment, and intimidation is right out of the civil disobedience playbook. And PETA refuses to condemn, . . . . Continue Reading »

Adherents to the “quality of life ethic” and those of a utilitarian mindset would have been quite content to see the little girl who is the subject of this story die, rather than live with the cognitive and developmental impairments caused by having half her brain surgically removed. . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed by Albert Mohler last week about human exceptionalism, Spain being poised to legalize the Great Ape Project, Ecuador and “nature rights,” PETA, and other matters. Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and he comes to issues from a . . . . Continue Reading »

A study has found that people with serious cognitive impairments who are conscious—people who are routinely dehydrated to death in most states—feel pain. From the story: Severely brain-damaged patients in a “minimally conscious state” may still feel pain and require . . . . Continue Reading »

In another study under-reported by the MSM because it cuts against assisted suicide, UK researchers found that about a quarter of assisted suicide requests in Oregon were depressed, and yet received lethal prescriptions. From the story:Now a new study shows one-in-four patients who requested lethal . . . . Continue Reading »